Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-17
moved sixteen pieces Of wood from thl
wound. He cannot recover.

moved sixteen pieces Of wood from the
wound. He cannot recover.
a devastating prairie fire was re-
ported from st. Joseph, stearns Co., Mimi.
on the 9Th. -Four hundred acres had been
their grain and crops. The fire was spread
ing toward the woods and the whole popu-
lation was fighting it, but with small SIC
cess. The scene Of the fire is miles west Of
st. Cloud. s! -,
Grand Master Workman Powderly
has issued another circular denouncinp
spectators in grain, coffee and other neces-
Sixteen String Jack were models Of Write
compared with these modern robbers. The
existence OF grain, coffee and coal OK
changes show the necessity of establishing
two more-a farmer5' and laborers' ex-
change. 1T
The Minnesota State Superintendent
of banks has granted a certificate author
izing the State Bank Of Hector, located at
Hector, Renville county, to commence
business. The capital stock paid in il
$4,000. G.. n. Gilbert, of Glencoe. is presf
dent; VIM Griffith, of Hector, vice-presi-
dent; A. R. Grese, Hector, cashier This
makes 55 state banks doing business.
Eight stacks of grain owned by c.
A. Gilbert, one and half miles from Spring
Valley, Mimi, were set on fire Friday even
ing by New York boy adopted by Mr..
Gilbert year ago, and were entirely con-
sumed as we'll as large brick barn some
twenty feet from the grain. This is the Sec
ond time the boy has attempted to fire the
stacks.
At Brooklyn, Iowa, on the 10th,
Kings new opera house was burned, also
harness shop and several offices. The opera
house cost $4,000 and was not insured.
The other losses amount to 5000, partial
insurance: One man was killed by g.
alling. building and another fatally hurt
from being run over by fire engine.
The steamer City of Ashland, be-
longing to the Superior Lumber Company
of Ashland, having in tow raft of logs.
caught fire near Washburn, Wis, about II
O'Clock Monday morning, burning to the
waters edge. The crew, consisting of
Capt: Dougherty and five men, were all
saved except one man, the fireman.
Reports are received of destructive
and dangerous forest and prairie fires at st.
Springs and Coleman, Mich, Neillsvilie,
Wis, Carlyle, Ills, and Michigan City, Ind.
Fires were burning at all these places on
the 9th, and the damage was almost too
great for computation.
During the Wisconsin storm Thurs
day evening boat on Lake Kegonsa, one
of the four lakes near Stoughton, contain
ing party of four young lady campers
was capsized and two of them, Miss Alta
Watson, of Bloomington, Ill.,, and Miss
Lole Miller, of Fulton, were drowned. The
bodies were recovered.
On Monday Gov. McGin appointed
the following members of the Minnesota
State Board of Equalization, for new
districts: Eleventh district, ]. E. Cooley,
Fisher, Polk county; Fifteenth, George A.
Whitney, Wadena; Sixteenth, R. J. Hall,
Morris, Stevens county.
Chief of Police Wood of Fargo, OAK,
had half a dozen persons arrested at Barnes.
vile, alleged to have in their possession
some of the property taken in several re-
cent burglaries in Fargo, including an ele-
CANT silver set taken from the residence of
W. A. Kindred.
DR.. S. 81. Sandborg, of Red Wing,
MIMI, who left some weeks ago for Mon
tana and Idaho for the purpose of collect
ing botanical specimens, has been burned
out by the Indians In that region, losing his
whole outfit and some 600 valuable specf-
mems.
Edward Harmon, janitor at the
State Capitol, st. Paul, during Gov. Hub.
bard's administration, committed suicide
by hanging, at Shakopee. MINI. on the 18th.
He was overcome by the heat July Is, af-
fecting his mind. No other cause assigned.
Attorney General Clapp, has been
appointed as Minnesota's representative
at the interstate extradition con.
ference, which is to be held at the Murray
Hill hotel in New York, August %.
The government work upon the
breakwater at Lake City, Mimi, is pro-
crossing rapidly. 200 feet of the shore end
of the pier is complete.